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HP Tackles Dedupe With Data Center Blitz
LAS VEGAS — In a bid to reinforce its claim to be the only vendor who can legitimately provide a single-source solution to all of an organization’s data-center needs, HP has announced a flurry of new servers, storage products and its first home-grown data dedupe solution. Unveiled at its Tech Forum 2010 as part of…
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Cisco’s Goodwin: Virtualization, Cloud Driving New Channel Opportunities
Cisco Systems has never been a company that sat idly by as the world around it evolved. In the past 18 months, Cisco has embarked on radical departures from its networking legacy to embrace emerging technologies such as video, consumer electronics and, of course, virtualized data centers. The evolution of Cisco has put it on…
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Brad Smith, Intuit CEO, Issues an Apology for Outage
The president and CEO of small business finance software company Intuit, Brad Smith, apologized to Intuit’s customers in the form of a company blog post, promising to earn back their trust following a widespread service failure earlier in the week. Smith said he hopes to earn back the trust of the businesses that employ his…
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Verizon Communications Joins Cloud Storage Market
The service will become available in the U.S. and 16 countries beginning in July. It enters the market against a flock of competitors that include Amazon S3, Google’s new Gdrive, Microsoft’s SkyDrive, and a number of others. Verizon Cloud Storage will use a pay-as-you-use scheme that scales on demand and can either augment traditional storage…
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Market for Server Virtualization Software Growing, Report Finds
Against the backdrop of growing clamor for energy saving technologies such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), green IT and Service-oriented architecture (SOA), a report by IT market research specialist Global Industry Analysts, Inc. (GIA), found the worldwide market for Server Virtualization Software is projected to reach $5.6 billion by 2015. The report found Windows OS Server Virtualization…
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Ingram Micro, VMware Expand Partnership for On-Demand Virtualization Licensing
Ingram Micro and VMware have expanded their relationship enabling the distribution giant to provide a VMware Service Provider Program Aggregator offering to channel partners. Through the deal, channel partners in the United States and Canada will now be able to access a pay-as-you-go licensing model for VMware, letting them pay for as many or as…
